Nobody invited him. He was in the terms and conditions.
Every face in the portrait belongs there except one. Mom has pearls, the kids are scrubbed and beaming, it’s a 1950s family shot right down to the warm lighting. Then there’s the man in the back row: half in shadow, corporate lanyard, grinning like he already knows what’s in your cart. The color goes cold and blue at his outline because whatever he represents walked in through the WiFi and never signed out. The family posed for this photo. He just showed up in the frame.